Large-Scale Earthquake Simulation --- Computational Seismology and Complex Engineering Systems

Ricardo Taborda, & Jacobo Bielak

Published 2011, SCEC Contribution #1469

This paper presents an overview of large-scale earthquake simulations in computational seismology, using high performance computers and applications, and describes our most recent contributions and developments in the field, with emphasis in complex engineering systems of interest to earthquake engineering, such as the effect of nonlinearity in soft-soil deposits in basins and the influence of the built environment on the ground motion for the study of site-city interaction effects in urban seismology. We present initial results and discuss the potential of petascale computing in the future of seismology and earthquake engineering in the context of physics-based simulations of earthquake-related problems.

Citation
Taborda, R., & Bielak, J. (2011). Large-Scale Earthquake Simulation --- Computational Seismology and Complex Engineering Systems. Computing in Science and Engineering, 13(4).